Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basement storage room that was furnished with only a mattress. Says Metrinko: "When I was awake, I'd lean it against the wall because you couldn't move around with it on the floor." He spent four months there, volunteering to scrub toilets, mop floors, "do anything that got me out of that hole." He spent many of the hours reading, including The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's grim portrait of Soviet prison life. Says Metrinko dryly: "I can't imagine a better place to read...
...Pattons, recently modernized with 105-mm turret guns and twelve-cylinder diesels. Crashing through trees and brush, the 54-tonners seem invulnerable. Tankmen know better; but they think they can shoot faster and straighter than the "Russians." They have set up camp at a tank range, miles of scrub and shrubbery dotted with pop-up silhouette targets that look like Soviet tanks, trucks and armored cars. Staff Sergeant Donald Fogal, 36, tank commander (foreman in an auto parts plant), and his regular gunner, Sergeant Ron Pospisil, 31 (Xerox representative), have to run through the qualification course with a pickup driver...
...past, ground water was kept pure because the soil at the earth's surface could be counted on to act as a filtration system, a kind of geological "kidney" that would scrub out bacteria and other insoluble contaminants placed on or in the ground before they could seep down to the water table, the ground water's upper limit. But this filtration system does not reliably screen out the waste chemicals cropland now leach into the soil from a variety of sources, including cropland that has been sprayed with pesticides, and industrial dumps like the pools into which...
There are no frills, a bootcamp approach shared with the Navy's Alcohol Rehabilitation Service in Long Beach, Calif., which has treated Betty Ford and Billy Carter. Residents at Long Beach make beds and scrub toilets, but at MARRinc they are also expected to shop for groceries, cook and tend the yard. There are no live-in housekeepers. Says Ann Martin, the Atlanta Junior League's representative on MARRinc's executive board: "A number of interim care facilities have somebody to do everything for you but attend the therapy groups...
Thai forces reacted swiftly to the Vietnamese assault. Ground units swept the invaded area with automatic weapons fire, while helicopter gunships strafed Vietnamese sighted in scrub land outside the camps. After the Vietnamese shot down a Thai chopper and observation plane, the Thais moved in heavy reinforcements of tanks and armored cars to the front. TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark visited the scene while the fighting was still going on. "Thousands of refugees were fleeing down the road," he reported, "and many others squatted in the water of the overflowing rice paddies, the picture of abject misery...